Improvement in horse-rakes



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,673, d ated August 29, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that lVilliamsville, of New York,

sponding par or teeth.

The following description will enable others skilled iii the branch of manufacture to which my invention and use the same.

A A A representa series of gathering iin gers or teeth, pivoted to the beam B and projecting forward so as to take up the hay as the machine passes along. in such manner as to be allowed the necessary vibratory movement to conform tothe inequalities of the ground. A are so arranged that the plane of their upper edges is inclined at a suitable angle'toward one side of the slide oft' continuously as fast as it is received. If preferred, the office of thc gatherers or teeth may be t the ground an cave, E, as in Fig. strips or pieces A', extend backward and upward to an extent to adapt them to act as clearers themselves.

The machine thus constituted in the county of Erie and State have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hay-Rakes; declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being ts in the several igures.

My invention relates to the class of rakes which form the windrow in a line parallel with the path traveled by the machine; and the improvement consists in a novel manner of arranging and attaching the gathering iingers d deliver it to an inclined con- IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-RAKES.

stated, or rather the raking portions of two such machines, may be arranged to Work side by side, so as to throw the hay in opposite directions, and thus make the windrow between them.

he ngers may be held down to their work by means of suitable springs adapted to permit the fingers to yield and override obstacles. It is my intention to arrange the teeth to work behind the beam B instead of in front thereof, as above described.

One advantage of this inode of raking consists in forming the windrow so as to be taken up in hauling by the wagon passing along its side upon the unraked hay, the scatteriiigs thus falling so as to be taken into the next row formed, finishing the whole operation in the middle of the field, and requiring but one raking ot' the field and making cleaner work than by two rakings in the ordinary mode. Another advantage consists in forming the windrow into a more compact roll, for the purpose of cooking, than can be done in the ordinary inode, as thehay may for that purpose be rolled or raked together from opposite directions, brin gin gttwo rolls or windrows together, similar to the back furrow turned by a plow in plowing greensward.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

l. The pivoted inclined teeth A A, in conibinatioii with their carrying-beam B, the wheels O G O2, and arm or tongue D,` all constructed and arranged in the manner and for the purposes specified.

2. In combination with the above, the inclined concave E, arranged and employed substantially in the manner and for the purpose explained.

To the above specification of my improved mode of raking hay I have signed my hand this 27th day ot'llIay, 1865.

'IOBIAS IITMER.

I, Tomas Wi'riiEE, of

and I do hereby rake illustrative of Fig.2 is a side elevation therereference indicate correappertains to fully understand The iingers are attached These fingers or gatherers machine to cause the hay to o simply take up the hay from 3; but in Figs. 1 and2 the attached to the fingers A,

wheels O O C, and the horses may be attached Witnesses: to the arm or bar D. CHARLES D. SMrri-i,

Two machines of the construction above l W. F. BALL. 

